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Established 1845
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1961.
New bank branch Government
Prince Edward planned
road to
be extended in Mongkok
Work will begin shortly on ex- Lending Prince Edward-road through the area released by
the Royal Air Force, Kal Tak
The extension will enable trafic lo proceed through Prince Edward-road to Kun
without Tank
uning Chal
flung-read.
The first stage of the work comprises the construction of about 2,100 Tect of dual cur-
riagewny, esch
24 feet witle.
The carnageway will e of 10- inforced concrete and will have
2
ten-foot wide pedestrianS
footpath on either sid
The extension will start just beyond the area now occupied by the offices of the Hongkong Aircraft Engineering Co, Ltd at the junction of Prince Edward- road Choi Hung-road.
When the company vaentes its presen premises, the final nk of the rond extension will be built. Tenders for the con- struction of the rand extension are called for in Today's govern- Work will start ment gazetic.
Is expected to be in May au cumpleted In six months' time.
appointments
gazetted
The following appointments,
transfers promotions,
And postings were announced in today's Government Gazelle: Mr D. . Teatreson to be A- latont Secretary: Mr A. T. Clark to be Asistant Colonial Secretary; tr Deputy ca. C. Hamilton to be
dale to be Acting Colonial Secre- tary; Mr B. a. uark to be Secretary, New Territories Administration.
Premises for a new branch of the Hang Seng Bank Colonial Secretary: Mr Z. B. Tee-
Ltd in Mongkok were the subject of an exemption application this morning before Mr B. V. Rhodes, Tenancy Tribunal President and members, Mr Li Fook-shu and Mr M. O. Rees.
WORKMAN
SERIOUSLY
HURT IN FALL
A 23-year-old workman was injured when he fell 42 feet from steel scaffolding on the old Queen's Building site.
The workman, Lau Kam- wing, was immediately rushed to hospital, where his condition was reported to be critical.
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The ship is expected to sail at NOON on Monday, 10th April, 1961.
Should be sent to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown (No. 2 Gate), Canton Road, between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on Sunday, 9th April, 1961.
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The Tribunal subsequently recommended exemption of the bulldinga from the Existing Landlord and Tenant ordinance. At a cost of $2,570,000, a 14- storey bank and office building is planned by Mr P. C. Chau, architect, to replace the exist Ing two three-storey 1enements said to be 37 years old.
The Hang Seng Bunk Lid wire the applicant represented, by C. Y. Kwan and Co. Oppis- Ing tenants were represented by M. K. Lam and Co; P. C. Cheung Worg and Co and E. and Chaine.
COMPENSATION
Embodied In the decision to recommend exempllon of Nos 675-077, Nathan road from ordinance control, was the re- commendation of morc than $318,000 compensation to tenants Including restaurant owners and goldish vendors,
A feature of the new structure, allowed 24 months for completion, is a splayed corner entrance to the bank premises. with cantilevered canopy about 16 fret above street level.
This is to assist pedestrian trame, alco motor trame there is reme obstruction and vision is impeded by the exist
columns, verandah
the Ing architect said.
as
Floer space is increased from 7.307 to 20,495 square feel by the new scheme.
News from the Gazette
Mr J. Dickson Leach has been re- appointed a member of the Pubлc Services Comm:alon. Mr Wilson Wang Tre-sam has been appointed a member of the Urban Council,"
The following have been appoint- ed member of the Trade and In duntry Advisory Board: The Direc- tor af Commerce and Industry, Merira G. G. D. Carter, Cha Chi- ming, J. D. Clague, B. 8. Gordon, 1. Lam, J. 8. Lee, R. G. LO11- phant, Mr Beaward Woo and Dr S. Y. Chung
Mr Weng Man-tat has been op pointed a Registrar of Registration. Pie Y. D. D. Brown ing been op. pointed a 2/lieutenant in the long- kona Women's Auxillary Corps.
Army
Mr Wee Melchin has been recogn- Ised a Vice-Consul for the Republie of Korea; Mr Choi Moon Kyung has heen recognised as Consul-General for the epublic of Korea; M David Dean has been recoenlied as Consul for the United States; Dr Adoo, A. Bollini has been recoun- Ised a Consul-General for the Re- public of Argentina.
Lasco Corporal . V. Ramy has Trceived the First and Second Clasps to the Emelency Medni.
be Tie
will following fees charged for officia examination of Umber for export: 402 plan wa cents a cubic foot or each cou- 'signment.
following The
ices wi11 be charged for inspection at crops for export: $10 a crop for each inspec tion.
The spad through the Naval Dockyard will be known Ms Mar. court-road.
Conspiracy: prosecution ends case
The prosecution concluded its case yesterday at the Victoria District Court against two police Inspectors, driving instructor
and his wife who appeared be- fore Judne D. J. Jennings charges relating to conspiracy in written driving tests,
on
The case for the prosecution Insteil for a total of 14 days and there were 60 witnesses. One witness, Yeung Man-so, a walch deater, was in the witness bux for six-and-a-half days,
The accused are Yuen Pui- bung alles Lung Do, a woman, Lung Chung-wing, her husband, and Chan, Kwok-wal and The Hel, both police inspectors. Submissions for no caro answer will be heard on Mon-
day.
Mr T. 1. Poland to be Principal Training Officer, CAS.
Mr R. Huang Isan ceased to act as Principal Social Welfare Omcer. Mr E. W. J. Barber to be Acting Chief Stores Officer: Mr P. W. B. Cottler 1gbe Acting Senker Stores Oficer.
hr am Wal-wan to be Acting Treasury Accountant, Agriculture and Forestry Department.
M N. . Barnes ceared to be an Inspector of Schools.
Members of a Gurkha regiment morning's rehearsal for the Queen's Chua Mall photo.
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DRASS bands now used
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extensively for celebra- tions of national anniver- saries, woddings, funerals and even for advertising, were first introduced into China by Sir Robert Hart. former Inspector General of Chinese Maritime Customs.
When the first instru- China. arrived in large
Rehearsal of ments crowds gathered
parade in Kowloon
around the show windows of Moutric and Co gaze at the queer "music funnels". In the tenth year of the
reign of Kwang Hsu, during
Sir Robert's administration in the customs, a sum was
A rehearsal of the combined appropriated from the
services parade and march past in preparation for the
Customs budget to purchase
Queen's birthday celebration instruments and 20 young was held early this morning Chinese staff members were at Gascoigne-road, Kowloon. trained to play them.
Sir Robert was the first The parade commander was
The foreign bandmaster. Brigadler W. P. L. Lawson,
band became very popular The First Battalion, the Royal and was invited to play at Warwickshire Regiment com all public functions.
Lt- Commander, the Colonel A. W. Wise, formed the guard of honour.
under
"People engaged in the dreadful trade of narcotics which prising 16 officers and 218 men
causes a tremendous amount of human misery do not deserve leniency when they are caught," said Mr Justice W. A. Blair-Kerr at the Criminal Sessions today.
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up the Blair-Kerr.
Mr
Davidson, of manufacturing
W. S. w. procesa
Crown Counsel, sald the volue that one did one part and an- other person handled another of drugs found in Lui's flat was equally about $2.000. Lul had no pre- part they were all
vious convictions. guilty, said the Judge.
He sentenced GO-year-old If people divided
Flat E Po Wah Lui Kin of Building, sixth floor, 50 Queen's- road East, to eight years' jail
three
drugs dangerous charge, the seritences to run concurrently.
on
0:
LAST LINK Lul had pleaded not guilty to
"It is clear that you were the te manufacturing last link in process of charges dangereus drugs, possession, manufacturing the drug, just and dealing In drugs.
before it is sold to the addlet, The jury of six men and one You put the finishing touches woman did not retire to find Lu to the process.
the manufacturing guilly on charge.
EDUCATION
Lui teld the Judge: "Because of my desire to give education to my children 1 committed the offence" and he
asked for leniency because of his family.
Sentencing him, Judge Blair- Kerr said that during the trial had claimed he had he engaged in the whole process of manufacturing.
not
NEW PRIMARY
SCHOOL
AT HUNGHOM
"You dealt in drugs, and to the d'a- supplied them tribulors."
A new Government primary Dealing with h's plea for school is to be built at Hung
to the existing leniency the Judge told Lul that hom, adjacent
Docks memorial he should have thought of his Kowloon family
the tremendous school.
and
✩ ✩ Yuan
Shih-kai, who later became President of China, reported to have organised the first big band in Peking where 50 Chinese played at the the Summer Palace on
Empress were occasion of the
birthday. The Dowager's
Two bands were in atten dance-one from the 17/21 Lancers and the other from the First Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Servlets The regular The Hongkong Regiment and foreign quests woro amazed fully represented. other auxillary forces were re-when this band played the presented by two members from national anthems of several euch regiment.
foreign countries. The men were all dressed in rummer khukl uniform.
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steamer Hector Buils for England this afternoon she will carry Dr J. C. Macgown, principal of the medical firm of Macgown Anderson and Durran, one the Colony's most Mr Ma Kam-chen opened an of
classical esteemed residents and exhibition of Chinese paintings at the St John's
popular local sportsman.
amount of human misery caused The new school, a six-storey Cathedral Hall today. Mr Ma by the drug traffe before he building with 30 classrooms for of 2,700 the accommodation indulged in the dreadful trade.
Those who arc
caught pupils in two sessions, will be dreadful trade known as the Kowloon Dock
not deserve of narcolles do
Government primary school. It is expected to be completed by leniency. This trade must be stamped out" said Judge the end of this year.
furthering this
'JAPANESE MOTORBIKES MORE ADVANCED THAN· BRITISH'
Japanese motor-cycles are "more advanced in design then British-mado ones", according to Mr Edward Thomas White, importer of Japanese motor-cycles and bicycles into Now Zealand.
Mr
Jell
for
arc
advanced in cycles were more "Japanese motorcycles very popular in New Zealand," design than their British coun- terparts because they were Mr White said.
manufactured for terrains like Japan.
White. who Tokyo by Air-India Inst nigh: after a short visit to 1longkong, said New Zealand last year Im- 100 Japanese ported cycles.
motor-
Не thought the popularity was chiefly because of "low cost.
"And, geographically speak- He predicted that during their more advanced design and
White said, "New ing," Mr the current year, New Zealand, qulex delivery."
Mr White would import 200 more than In
explained that he Zealand is pretty much 4960.
| thought
same as Japan." the Japanese motor-
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